Towards low-temperature peculiarities of thermodynamic quantities for decorated spin chains

Abstract

We discuss the origin of an enigmatic low-temperature behavior of some one-dimensional decorated spin systems which was coined the pseudo-transition. Tracing out the decorated parts results in the standard Ising-chain model with temperature-dependent parameters and the unexpected low-temperature behavior of thermodynamic quantities and correlations of the decorated spin chains can be tracked down in the critical point of the standard Ising-chain model at and . We illustrate this perspective using as examples the spin-1/2 Ising-XYZ diamond chain, the coupled spin-electron double-tetrahedral chain, and the spin-1/2 Ising–Heisenberg double-tetrahedral chain.